 The response of simulated grassland communities to the cessation of grazingLina Weiss and Florian Jeltsch Ecological Modelling, 2015, vol. 303, issue C, 1-11 Abstract: Changes in land-use are supposed to be among the severest prospective threats to plant diversity world-wide. In semi-natural temperate grasslands, the cessation of traditional land use like livestock grazing is considered to be one of the most important drivers of the diversity loss witnessed within the last decades. Despite of the enormous number of studies on successional pathways following grazing abandonment there is no general pattern of how grassland communities are affected in terms of diversity, trait composition and pace of succession. To gain a comprehensive picture is difficult given the heterogeneity of environments and the time and effort needed for long-term investigations. We here use a proven individual- and trait-based grassland community model to analyze short- and long-term consequences of grazing abandonment under different assumptions of resource availability, pre-abandonment grazing intensity and regional isolation of communities. Keywords: Diversity; Individual-based model; Land use intensity; Seed immigration; Abandonment; Resistance (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ecomod:v:303:y:2015:i:c:p:1-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2015.02.002 Access Statistics for this article Ecological Modelling is currently edited by Brian D. Fath More articles in Ecological Modelling from Elsevier |
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